00:10Instructions for remembering
00:14A soul from the perspective of the Amma
00:22Take it out in the rain sometimes
00:24Let it feel what falls and what remains
00:28It has wide unseen wings that gather dust and they need washing
00:33When it turns on you that is often because you have forgotten
00:37To let it look into someone's eyes for longer than a moment
00:41A soul starves when it is denied witness
00:44It needs Torah the way a bee needs dew in the first light of morning
00:49Every so often take it on a journey
00:54Let it read hard books like yada yada
00:57Let it stand at the edge of the sea and learn how small a person can be without becoming less
01:03Yes, you can feed it noise, chaos, sugar and distraction
01:08But let that soul remember, remember the name
01:17The name that gathers the scattered and calls the forgotten back to him
01:21Let it lean into the words of those sent to redeem us for a people cannot rise by lies pandered
01:28in secret
01:29They need a voice that tells the truth without performance, without decoration, without asking to be venerated
01:36All life wants to live, to breathe, to learn, to grow
01:41A soul desires to keep becoming, nourish it, and it sends roots down deep
01:47It opens, it remembers, it returns, but starve it
01:50And the mind goes brittle, the bones goes hollow
01:53The world fractures into slogans and fear
01:55Songs go unwritten, children are left in ashes
01:59A strong beginning to call their emptiness wisdom
02:05Listen to my words, children, listen
02:11It is not too late to wake your soul
02:29Say the name forgotten of the wild grapes
02:31Speak boldly of the lost things
02:34The names the world was taught not to keep
02:36Atma, para, da, dama, migri, kodesh, yawa
02:40Say the name that was restored to be remembered
02:43Say it until the silence loosens
02:46Say it until it drips like honey from your lips
02:50You cannot heal everything
02:52But you can open the window for what has been shut away
02:56And let the truth ease you
02:58You can read aloud to the one who cannot see
03:02You can tell the child that her anger is real and still not her master
03:07You can tell a boy his fear is real and still not his master
03:15Make your life the first life you save
03:19Make your words a doorway instead of a wall
03:23Make remembrance a car a shelter for the bruised
03:27Because I am the alma
03:30And I tell you this plainly
03:33What is broken by forgetting
03:39Is sometimes restored
03:41By the simple courage to remember
03:45By the simple courage to remember
04:08That's the same way
